Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-05-20
MR.. AND Mrs. BOWSBR.
BY MRS. BOWSER.

noyance when he happened TO find
me in bed for a couple OF hours with
sick headache, and how he went 70
pieces hinSclfthe moment anything
alled him. About month ago l
woke mp one morning with the
toothache. II had been annoying
me for an hour before Mr.. Bowser
caught on. Then he said:
"Toothache, ell , "Well | don't
pity you a bit. This comes OF
cracking walnuts in your teeth and
chewing so much of the everlasting
gum
IL never cracked a walnut, and !
don't chew gum once a year
"Well, its some carelessness OF
yours, rest assured Of that, aud you
must suffer for it,"
lie went of whistling and sing
ing, and | went to bed to suffer.
That tooth ached for three days
and three nights IN spite of all rem
edies. During the day Mr.. Bow
ser would remark
caches yet does it? believe you
are pretending a great deal, so as
to get my sympathy. II you'd get
up and 90 around and throw of the
idea that your tooth ached the pain
would all 90 away. Four-ffths Of
human aches comes from imagina-
ton"
"But it does ache so bac :"
"Tbat is, you imagine it does. |
could 90 to bed and imagine my
leg was of, and have no doubt
that I should suffer awful pains.
Well, | can't do anything for you.
If you will let your imagination run
away with your sense can't help
il.
The ache hang on so long that
| finally went to the dentist and
had the tooth pulled. This was I'M
beknown 10 Mr. BOwser, and when
he came home that evening and
found me singing to the baby he
laughed long and loud and added ::
"Didn't | tell you So 30 doubt
you had little bit Of toothache to
start with-iust a little bit-aud
imagination did the rest. II | lad
gone to work and called you my
poor dear, stricken, suffering darl-
ing you'd have had every tooth
jumping cut of your head. It's
mighty lucky for YOU that you mar
ried man with something besides
saw dust under his scalp"
My revenge came sooner than
could have been anticipated. It
wasn't two weeks before Mr. Bow.
ser awoke me one night at midnight
hv evclalmjnC
"NIrs. Bowser, are yOn dead, or
have you become sione-deai =
"Nyhat is it. dear, burglars or
nre?7
"Bnrglars or fire be hanged
I've been suffering with the tooth
ache for the last three hours, and
you've lain there and snOred away
as if you didn't care a cent whether
| lived or diedw
"But what can / DO q? This is the
result of some carelessness fyOuTs.
Have you cracked any walnuts in
your teeth lately y
lie sat up in bed and held his
Jaw and glared at me so iiercely
4 that | was quite alarmed and went
for the medicine.case. | gave him
some peppermint essence on cot
ton; then some oil Of cloves on a
rag; then some camphor on the
end OF a tooth.pick. 1t was no
use.
81 don't believe | shall live to see
daylight~ he moaned as he fell
out of bed and began to dress.
"Oh, yes, you will. Are you sure
your tooth aches Z"
lie looked around after his revOlv-
er, but had slipped it under the
bureau.
81 had 1t, you know, or thought
| had, but | guess it was all imag-
inatiOn. Mr.. Bowser, just imagine
you haven't a tooth in your head
"And You just imagine that you
are an old buzzard waiting to pick
my bones :" be roared as he danced
around.
We tied a bag of hot ashes on
his face, aud we put on mustard,
pain-kIller and almost everything
else in the house, and none Of us
slept another wink. When morn.
ing came the ache was no better
and ] coldly observed:
"Well, of course you don't want
to keep the house upset any longer
You'd better 60 down and have il
pulled
"W-wbat -
"Just run down and have thu
dentist draw it out. II will hnr
awfully, of course, but you are :
man and can stand itw
w'll die frst~
"Oh, well, ifyou will permltyou
imagination to make you believ'
that you have tootbache, don
blame me-
] felt awfully sorry for him, 70
be suffered dreadfully for the mex
two days. Then he suddenly de
cided to have tho tooth pulled, AM
asked me in tone he tried +